smh @ wondering if other white owners of corporations feel the same way. i swear people bury their heads in the sand and come out once every blue moon scratching their heads talking about what happened.

Deadspin has also included a transcript that's well worth digesting. It's all so bad that finding the worst bit is difficult. But this is a primary candidate, at least as it relates to the NBA:

[Girlfriend]: Do you know that you have a whole team that's black, that plays for you?

[Sterling]: You just, do I know? I support them and give them food, and clothes, and cars, and houses. Who gives it to them? Does someone else give it to them? Do I know that I have-Who makes the game? Do I make the game, or do they make the game? Is there 30 owners, that created the league?

Donald Sterling scheduled to receive NAACP award amid controversy

A May 15 banquet for the Los Angeles chapter of the National
Association for the Advancement of Colored People just became a lot more
intriguing. The group is planning to honor Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling with a lifetime achievement award. This is the 100th anniversary of the L.A. chapter.

L.A. mayor Eric Garcetti is also scheduled to be honored with a
Person of the Year Award, as is the Rev. Al Sharpton. But, Yusef Robb,
the mayor’s spokesman, told the Los Angeles Times on Saturday, “In light of recent events, we will be discussing the event with the Los Angeles NAACP.”

On the chapter’s website, the list of honorees still included
Sterling late Saturday night. An email and phone call from USA TODAY
Sports to the office was not immediately returned.

The NBA announced Saturday it was investigating to determine if
racist comments heard on the audio were indeed from Sterling. The audio
obtained by TMZ has a man telling a female associate “why are you taking
pictures with minorities, why?” and telling her not to bring to Lakers
Hall of Famer Magic Johnson to Clippers games. The person said it
bothers him that she posted photos of herself with black people on her
Instagram account. After a recent Clippers game, the woman took a
picture with Johnson.

In a statement, Clippers president Andy Roeser, said of the recording
that the club does “not know if it is legitimate or it has been
altered. … Mr. Sterling is emphatic that what is reflected on that
recording is not consistent with, nor does it reflect his views, beliefs
or feelings. It is the antithesis of who he is, what he believes and
how he has lived his life.”

According to the website Deadspin, this would not be the first time
Sterling would be honored by the NAACP at an inopportune time. He
received another Lifetime Achievement Award in 2009 around the time of
former GM Elgin Baylor’s discrimination lawsuit. Deadspin posted this
excerpt from an L.A. Times story:

Clippers owner Donald Sterling, accused of racism and
embracing a “vision of a Southern plantation-type structure” in a
lawsuit filed in February by Elgin Baylor, will be given a lifetime
achievement award next week by the NAACP. . . .

Leon Jenkins, president of the Los Angeles branch of the civil rights
organization, says of the much-maligned Sterling, “He has a unique
history of giving to the children of L.A.,” revealing that the owner
donates anywhere from 2,000 to 3,000 tickets a game to youth groups for
nearly every Clippers home game.

Noting that the NAACP had made plans to honor Sterling before Baylor
filed suit, Jenkins says, “We can’t speak to the allegations, but what
we do know is that for the most part [Sterling] has been very, very kind
to the minority youth community.”

I don't think the music or entertainment industry is really the same. We have our own music labels, black funded films, media outlets, etc. Black artists choose major labels, studios, etc strictly for their own self interests. Can't blame them for wanting to be as rich as possible but these are the consequences of making deals with the devil.

I don't think the music or entertainment industry is really the same. We have our own music labels, black funded films, media outlets, etc. Black artists choose major labels, studios, etc strictly for their own self interests. Can't blame them for wanting to be as rich as possible but these are the consequences of making deals with the devil.

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